The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-11-30
Farm Notes.

Rye is one of the best things you can
SOW for fall, winter and spring pasture.
There are well-authenticated instances of
alfalfa producing good crops from forty to
sixty years after the sowing.
The ant is thought to be an enemy of
many injurious insects, particularly plant
lice, which are so often destructive 10 the
foliage of apple tiees.
There are in this country. according to
the government statistical bureau report.
Al, 10. S36 head Of hogs, breeding animals
and young pigs.
The cultivation OF the bamboo for fenc-
ing material has been begun in California
1t is said that an acre will produce pickets
enough each year TO make six miles OF
fence.
In filling walls with sawdust, whether
for silos, ice-house or root bins, the saw
dust should be dry and well packed down,
or 1t will shrink and settle and leave empty
A Missouri farmers wife has found that
the best way 70 save pumpkins for winter
use is TO stew and can them like fruit.
When thus prepared they cannot be told
rom fresh pumpkin. aS5s8s----. So 80 sSsEse7
FOT. bee pasturage alsike is undoubtedly
the best farm crop that can be grown The
yield of honey, depending on meteorologi-
cal conditions, varies with the seasons; but
it secretes honey OF the finest quality much
more abundRntly than white clover, and
bees prefer working on il.
One pound of hay lost per day land on
many farms there are seveTal) to zach an
imal, the waste will amount to two tons to
every twenty-five head OF cattle in the fod-
deTiDg season.
At the Valley Fair, Brattleboro, VT, a
Chilli squash was exhibited by Mr.. G.. n.
Bemis, weighing 1851 pounds, and ore
still larger, not weighed. Other smaller
sizes tipped the scale down to seventy-two
pounds in weight.
The chinch bug eats the farmers grain,
The bee moth spoils his honey,
The bed bug fills him full of pain,
Tue humbug scoops his money.
-Flatonia TEX Argus
The estimate is usually made that Leg
horn or Hamburg cock may be mated with
fifteen hens; a Wyandotte, Plymouth
Rock. HoudRn or Langshan, with twelve
a Minorca with fourteen, and Brahma OF
Cochin with ten.
A twenty.acre farm at Carrollton, Mich,
produced this year thirty tons OF hay,
81 900 worth of raspberries, 400 bushels OF
strawberries, 300 bushels of onions 20O
bushels Of potatoes and 200 bushels OF corn.
The total receipts were 81, $50.
& Old leather contains considerable per.
centage OF ammonia compounds, which
| though said to be insoluble, are, in fact
very slowly soluble. A good way to dis
pose of old boots, therefore, is to bury
them at the foot OF an apple tree.
Bone is one of the best substances that
can be fed TO the hens. Ground or brok
en- the bone Is highly relished. 1t not only
contains lime for shells but also nitrogeH
and the phosphates. 1t should be kept
before the hens in boxes all the time.
DIR. Salmon says there are two conta
gious diseases known as hog cholera-onC
| affecting the bowels the other the lungs
| The one Is the jenuine hog cholera, tint
other the swine plague. It is posi- bic foi
an animal to have both diseases at thu
same time.
To get rid of cockroaches sprinkle theil
haupts thIckly with powdered hellebor'
or with Persian powder. This can be don,
with the ordinary sprinkler made for thu
| purpose or with a common dredging box
The application must be made repeated,
and constant vigilance exercised until tn
pests are exserminated, or they will get tn
upper hand.
When the wool buyer comes round tn,
farmer wishes he had looked after hi
sheep little more closely, cut down thu
bur and brier bushes and removed tn
tags in the spring. A dirty fleece weigh
more, but the buyer is keen-sighted, AM
is sure to deduct from the price paid 70
rood, clean wool more than enough h
make up for the extra weight. Bear thu
lesson in mind, and keep the wool clear
next year.
Smut and mold on corn and cornstalk
| are often Injurious, and, under some eli
cumsisnces, absolutely poisonous to stool